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Good morning and happy Friday, baseball fans!
Here’s a roundup of what’s going on around the National League East.
- Mike Napoli’s return to Texas is now official. Party on.
- Literally stop every single thing you’re doing to watch this glorious Bartolo Colon trailer.
- Here are the most important lessons learned from the 2016-2017 offseason.
- The Giants sign David Hernandez to a minor-league deal.
- The Rays have made an offer to Matt Wieters. Now...we wait.
- Travis Wood signs a 2-year, $12M deal with the Royals.
- Check out these three potential dark horses for this season.
- The Pirates are still willing to trade McCutchen, in case anyone had forgotten that that was a thing.
- Could the Angels actually be contenders this season?
- The Blue Jays have signed Mat Latos to a minor-league deal.
- The Mets and Neil Walker are discussing a contract extension.
- Here are the top 200 MLB prospects for 2017.
- Tampa Bay and Tommy Hunter have agreed to a minor-league deal.
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Today in baseball: On February 17th, 2011, Jose Bautista and the Blue Jays come to terms on a $64-million, five-year contract extension.